Hi. I wanted to share a Japanese baseball database with this community. It includes Nippon Professional Baseball statistics (ichi-gun only) from 1936 to 2011. It is a redesigned and updated version of the earlier Japanese Baseball Database—please note that the two are not compatible. The database itself is a set of CSV files so they may be imported any RDBMS or spreadsheet program. It can be downloaded from here, while an online version is here. Hopefully some of you find it to be useful.Michael Eng

Hi. I have made the following changes and additions to the Japanese Baseball Database (release 2012-04):

* added places of birth and death for people* added catching/fielding stats (2005 to 2011) [note: the old fielding games table has been renamed to defense]* added a meikan (roster listing) from 1936 to 2008 --- includes all uniformed people (coaches, ni-gun players, etc.) with associated additions made to the persons tables* some corrections made to statistics

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